Officials will hope he avoids another embarrassing gaffe after he accidentally told politicians in Beijing that his Chinese wife, Lucia, was Japanese Original source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-hunt-japan-brexit-china-gaffe-wife-lucia-shinzo-abe-a8541081.html

For practical purposes, the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland no longer exists. Brexit will change that. Cathal McCall (Queen’s University Belfast) explores what this ‘rebordering’ will mean and asks whether Northern Ireland should not be left out of Brexit – despite the DUP’s opposition. In the superb travelogue Border: A Journey to the Edge of … Read moreNorthern Ireland faces rebordering after Brexit

Results from the 2018 Global Peace Index, a quantitative measure of peace across 163 countries, show that Europe remains the most peaceful region in the world. But as José Luengo-Cabrera (Institute of Economics & Peace) notes, Europe’s peacefulness has been deteriorating in recent years. He argues that this deterioration has provided fertile ground for the rise … Read moreHow Europe’s deteriorating peace is facilitating the rise of populism